Richard
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Richard
@RichardStone25
Verba Volant, Scripta Manent. Interests are plenty. Tweets and views expressed are my own
Not the Cotswolds, England Katılım Şubat 2019
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Interestingly, almost every consulting firm presentation I attended for ten years stated that "80% of consumers [say they] will pay more for sustainable products". I used to sit at the back as a lonely marketer thinking "that's bollocks". But the consulting firms made money implementing all this woke shit, so it paid them to continue reciting this dumb litany.
The Grocers Son@thegrocersson
@rorysutherland Ibstock brick launched a carbon neutral brick factory, they felt they would be able to demand a 20% premium on the products. Guess what the customer didn’t agree and they had to drop the prices to the standard rates
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Blue shirts for Friday
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You’re only going to see this more as the weather gets better in London Unstoppable under the sun
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A yards-long supermarket cheese island must be one of the most Tunbridge Wells things ever…
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Every person who is up for a Bond audition will be briefed or leaked to the press like so, this lets the producers test the industry reaction. In the Broccoli era this would be top secret and any potential candidates couldn’t tell anyone.
Variety@Variety
EXCLUSIVE: Tom Francis has auditioned to play James Bond for Amazon MGM. • The 26-year-old British actor is best known for appearing opposite Nicole Scherzinger in the stage production of “Sunset Boulevard” • Francis is one of many performers jockeying for the part in a casting process that is ongoing and being overseen by Nina Gold (“Game of Thrones”) variety.com/2026/film/news…
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New: the Met Police have arrested Nelson and his column. Refused to move on, apparently.
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Graham Norton is especially sarcastic this year for his Eurovision commentary. And I’m here for it
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@RealEmirHan I did think as a plot device to be imprisoned for nearly 2 years and being tortured then escaping his medical custody and to get past 9/11, it kinda worked. When back in London and he meets M in the old tube station and she says “While you were gone, the world changed”
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In Die Another Day (2002), it was Pierce Brosnan’s own idea for Bond to appear with long, shaggy hair and a full beard after 14 months of imprisonment and torture in North Korea. This made it the first time James Bond sported a beard in an official Eon Productions film.
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@BenRamanauskas Same as hosting any sporting event. World Cup olympics etc huge public financial support without matched private investment leads to white elephants, underused stadia and arenas only a few later on
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New blog post!
It's on the economics of Eurovision and why it's definitely worth entering, but probably not worth winning it.
Link to follow
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@AaronBastani Burnham wasn’t even the most popular Brownite in the Labour Party, but I suppose Ed did have his shot after shafting his brother in the Leaders election
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The right message. It’s also true.
unherd.com/2026/05/what-b…
Liz Webster@LizWebsterSBF
🔴 @AndyBurnhamGM on BBC today: “I think Britain has been on the wrong path for 40 years.” 👍 It started with de-industrialisation, bus deregulation, and the privatisation of life’s essentials. 👏 We need to… get the basics back under public control so that people can afford their rent, their energy bills, etc. 🙌 He wants Labour to “change and once again [be] the party that people in this borough knew… I don’t blame anybody who has gone away and voted for other parties. I want them to regain their trust… I want Labour solidly to become a working class community.”
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The man striking the gong was 6ft 3ins tall Bombardier Billy Wells, one of the most celebrated English boxers of the 20th century.
Rank chose him because he was a figure with high recognition factor, even before he struck the big gong.
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38 South Street, Mayfair, was where J Arthur Rank established the headquarters of the Rank Organisation. They financed films such as Ealing comedies Passport to Pimlico, Whisky Galore and Kind Hearts and Coronets.
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@JBondPersuader I do wonder sometimes where the inspiration for this scene in Skyfall came from
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The Thomas Crown Affair: The lost James Bond film
JACOB EVERETT@blauer_geist
Watched The Thomas Crown Affair, the remake with Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo, last night for the first time in years and it felt like a transmission from an alien planet. 10/10.
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There is finally a “no dividend S&P 500” ETF - something I’ve looked for for a long time.
If an equivalent became available in Britain, we could avoid the 35.75–39.35% dividend tax rates and pay the 24% Capital Gains Tax rate instead. Huge savings!
roundhillinvestments.com/etf/xdiv/
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@s8mb To quote Brian May from the film Bohemian Rhapsody…
“It's America. They're puritans in public, perverts in private".
Just something about them. Also sports betting has been liberalised in the smartphone era with little restrictions making it prime for addiction
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Is there a good theory about why sports betting has oneshotted Americans so badly when the rest of the world does just fine with it?
Is this the downside of American optimistic entrepreneurialism? Or do they just lack the societal antibodies that the rest of us have developed?
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In 1993, a local Chicago reporter covering the St. Patrick's Day parade spotted Tommy Lee Jones filming a movie amidst the festivities and stopped him for a quick interview. The movie was THE FUGITIVE 🔥
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@SCP_Hughes Looks great. Newbury has also approved something similar replacing the Kennet shopping centre with mixed used residential despite opposition whose argument was it would create more traffic despite being partly pedestrian 🤔
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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Central Oxford is to gain a pleasant vernacular neighbourhood on the site of a particularly grim 1980s shopping mall. I have roughly outlined the awful stuff they are demolishing, to be replaced with new streets of limestone vernacular-classical buildings.
Robert Kwolek@RobertKwolek
In very exciting news, and we must hope it becomes reality, Quinlan Terry is working on a project in Oxford to replace the Clarendon Centre with multiple new buildings and a pedestrian-only square. More info here: oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-10…
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Superior analysis from @TheEconomist man in Beijing.
You’ve been given free access to this article from The Economist as a gift. You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire.
China’s ice-cold calculus over Iran economist.com/china/2026/03/…
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Eat at a street food stall inside a shipping container tonight. Get the loaded jerk fries. Have a £7.20 pint of Brixton Brewery's Reliance from a plastic cup. Sit on a deeply uncomfortable wooden bench. The buzzer will go off when it’s ready. Check in on yourself. Enjoy the ride.
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@theawayfans Poor Gary Neville, got given the job by his sugar daddy Peter Lim and still couldn’t be successful
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Valencia's ex-president on Gary Neville:
"That Englishman we had, he was honestly the worst coach I've ever seen in my life."
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